Someone Like Pearl

Someone Like Pearl explores what happens when 27-year-old Pearl – who lives with OCD – pushes herself outside her comfort zone in search of a real connection. Pearl finds solace in the small routines of her life – lunch with her best friend Una, talking with her therapist Mairead and working with the O’Callaghans in their local shop. Her other routines – from needing to count to ten before she can go up or down the stairs, to obsessively sanitising her hands – pose more of a problem, that is until Jack enters the picture.

Claire Frances has worked as a journalist and freelance feature writer for BBC Countryfile Magazine and Devon Life and was a host blogger for The Huffington Post UK.